Ryanairhas triumphed in a battle with Spanish screenscraper Atrapalo in the Commercial Court of Barcelona.

The court ruled that Ryanair is entitled to distribute its low fares exclusively on its own website under the Spanish Constitution. It also ruled that Ryanair’s comparative advertisements, previously censored by another Spanish court, complied with the law.

Ryanair is now allowed to publicly address screenscrapers in terms such as: “illegal sellers”, “parasites of the sector” and “dead wood”; however it will not allow Ryanair to describe them in terms such as “b*****ds”.

Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said: “Websites such as Atrapalo have for too long been getting away with unauthorised reselling of Ryanair’s flights, with the addition of charges which consumers don’t pay when they book directly with Ryanair.”

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